Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the Most Anticipated Movie for 2015!
No surprises here. According to a Fandango survey Star Wars beats Avengers 2 for most anticipated movie for 2015. Also Daisy Ridley is the “Biggest Female Breakout Movie Star” for 2015! John Boyega lost the first place in the category “Biggest Male Breakout Movie Star” to Jamie Dornan from “Fifty Shades of Grey,” the movie which trailer was the most watched one in 2014 leaving TFA teaser in second place…
From Variety:
That’s the takeaway from Fandango’s survey of the most anticipated films of 2015. The online ticketing company found that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is the film that moviegoers are most jazzed to see next year, while “Avengers: Age of Ultron” has to settle for runner-up status.
The Fandango poll shows just how sky high anticipation is for the return to a galaxy far, far away. An 88-second teaser for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” was viewed by more than 51 million fans on YouTube.
To get its results, Fandango polled 1,000 film fans on its website from Dec. 22 through Dec. 29. The company also looked at the biggest film stars and breakthrough performers going into the new year.
Here’s an excerpt from the various categories.
Most Anticipated 2015 Movie:
1. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
2. “Avengers: Age of Ultron”
3. “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2″
4. “Fifty Shades of Grey”
5. “Jurassic World”
Biggest Male Breakout Movie Star, 2015:
1. Jamie Dornan (“Fifty Shades of Grey”)
2. John Boyega (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”)
3. Levi Miller (“Pan”)
4. Neel Sethi (“The Jungle Book”)
5. Tony Jaa (“Furious 7″)
Biggest Female Breakout Movie Star, 2015:
1. Daisy Ridley (“Star Wars: The Force Awakens”)
2. Lily James (“Cinderella,” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”)
3. Dakota Johnson (“Fifty Shades of Grey,” “A Bigger Splash”)
4. Kate Mara (“The Fantastic Four,” “The Martian”)
5. Sofia Boutella (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”)
And if you still have doubts that Disney will rule in 2015, here’s their complete movie list for the whole year. 12 months – 12 movies!
(via comicbook)
January 23, 2015 – Strange Magic
February 20, 2015 – McFarland, USA
March 13, 2015 – Cinderella
April 17, 2015 – Monkey Kingdom
May 1, 2015 – Avengers: Age of Ultron
May 22, 2015 – Tomorrowland
June 19, 2015 – Inside Out
July 17, 2015 – Ant–Man
October 9, 2015 – The Jungle Book
October 16, 2015 – The Untitled Steven Spielberg Cold War Spy Thriller
November 25, 2015 – The Good Dinosaur
December 18, 2015 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Founder of SWNN, MNN and The Cantina forums.
Born on April 24, 1980.
None of us are surprised at all…
but I bet Disney is surprised. To them, Star Wars is still a second-rate franchise, behind their precious men-wearing-tights dick flicks.
I sincerely hope not. Disney better know what it has on it’s hands. I’d like to think they do when they paid 4 billion dollars… but considering Microsoft paid 2 billion for minecraft… it suddenly doesn’t seem so pricey.
Disney’s not surprised one bit.
They understand how huge this is. They had brains enough to extend the project a good 7 months and to get TFA the heck out of that feeding frenzy of a summer season and into that wide open winter period.
Come this time next year, expect that dinner bell to ring loud and clear for several months. You know, including those months infamous for releasing crap films.
How many times will you see it over 3 months? Might wanna start saving up… 😉
“Star Wars is still a second-rate franchise, behind their precious men-wearing-tights dick flicks.”
WTF?? 4 BILLION DOLLARS and Disney is out-of-touch, says the dude who just got back from the night shift at Taco Bell.
I “liked” the Taco Bell dude’s comment basically because it reflects my feelings about the billions of stupid Marvel movies that Disney is spewing out. Hopefully this mass-production of boring banality does not end up in Star Wars. When we refer to a series of movies as a “franchise” and talk about the next “instalment” we know we are going down the wrong path. Honestly I prefer less movies but well thought-out and higher quality
Why would you make fun of someone’s job? People have to eat and pay bills.
Star Wars has one teaser out. Marvel has… More than one teaser. OF COURSE DISNEY IS MAINTAINING IT’S WELL-LOVED FRANCHISE.
they are going to be releasing a butt-load of Star Wars movies, starting next year.
Marvel is making too many movies, agreed, but Avengers was cool, I defend what you deem as “dick-flicks”. Avengers is a well made movie, and about the tights… THERE ARE NO TIGHTS. These “dick-flicks” as you call them share a genre with Star Wars, and that is not a bad thing. Neither is being a dick a bad thing.
Need I quote Team America’s rather well composed “Dicks F@#$ P@#^^es” speech?
Silly statement, that! Disney, if they were initially a little slow to understand the magnitude of the Star Wars universe/franchise, it didn’t last long. They understand fully the exceptional money-making machine they’ve acquired and have set the wheels in motion to take full advantage of that over the next decade or so.
Daisy who? John who?
With recent press releases, you’d think the only people in the film were Andy Serkis and Oscar Isaacs.
I remember when you guys were predicting how huge Star Wars was going to be. I agreed it’d be massive and do quite well but maybe not claim the #1 spot.
However the further this goes along and the bigger the hype is getting. I’m starting to believe. Entertainment weekly made the bold prediction it could break 3 billion. There only stipulation was that it needed to be good enough for repeat viewings.
That would be something wouldn’t it? I hope it all comes true.
If that happens and it rakes in ungodly amounts of dough… do you guys think they will go on to make Episodes X – XII?
I will be really sad it if ends on 9.
BANE: Of course! (÷B
I expect them to take breaks in between the episodic trilogies to focus on other standalones and trilogies, but I don’t think for one second that the series will ever end. Not as long as they’re making uber money.
And as long as they’re quality entertaining films, I say bring ’em on! xD
Probably, but I think they’d wait at least six years after the release of Episode IX before they would make another trilogy of Episodes. (I heard that a while back, a trilogy based around the Old Republic era would be made during this time gap.)
Wow, Pomojema! I hope that’s true! I’ve been saying that for the longest… xD
“Entertainment weekly made the bold prediction it could break 3 billion.”
They didn’t really did they?
That’s ridiculous to think it’s going to pass Avatar. That is the nonsensical type of thinking when people were predicting TPM could go past Titanic.
So when that doesn’t happen and from the way the box office is going now the chances are that might not match TPM in dollar amount.
Seems the 3D juicing the box office got might be over based on this years box office which is down 5% and the biggest decline since 2005’s 6%
BTW even in 2005 the domestic monster king movie that ROTS was still grossed 380 million. 90 million more than the next closest film even though everything else was down. If it had been an average year ROTS would have probably broken the 400M barrier.
If next year is like this year minus the expected success of Avengers then TFA will be hard pressed to match ROTS even with dollar amount. The 60 million ticket sale in tickets it got are a dream now save for the biggest of the big like Avengers 76 million.
The Dark Knight Rises sold less tickets than ROTS but due to higher prices made almost 450M. Iron Man 3 sold 49M tickets over 10 millions less than ROTS.
The foreign market has exploded since 2005, and that’s where a lot of money is made. The Force Awakens will easily be the most profitable movie in the franchise yet. Whether or not it clears $2-3 billion is another question entirely.
A nice gift to consider giving (and receiving) next year (birthdays, Christmas, etc.), especially for the hardcore Star Wars fans:
movie theater gift cards
Most anticipated movie for 2015?
More like the most anticipated movie
OF A L L T I M E ! ! !
As Yoda would say: anticipation a good film does not make.
Opinions vary.
And someone should do a timeline chart of releases next year (the one above is just Disney.) It has to be some kind of record or something.
As I once said to Benedict Cumberbatch, “No shit, Sherlock.”
Who said Ridley isn’t a Skywalker/Solo which if she’s Leias daughter she is technically a skywalker.
She’s apparently unrelated.
If you recall, Lucas said the third saga features an older Luke (& Gang)…..he never mentioned anything about offspring.
Even if Ridley is a Skywalker who wants to pay money to watch a woman fight?
I’ve never payed money to watch female boxing or mixed arts because both suck bigtime.
If I wanna watch boxing, I watch male boxing. Particularly the heavyweights.
That’s actually exciting…unlike a female Jedi Knight which is about as stupid, dull and uninteresting as you can get.
Good. One less non fan in front of me at the theater complaining….
All right, Tim. You’re not going to get your white male Skywalker lead. Rather than suck it up and deal or look for entertainment elsewhere, you keep whining and stomping your feet because you’re not getting your way.
Look. No one cares if you don’t watch this movie. Man up, and get over yourself. And, to think, you crap on women for being awesome.
“…which is about as stupid, dull and uninteresting as you can get.”
I can think of someone who’s got that beat by a longshot.
This insult is trying too hard.
I’m rating this frail attempt to offend the humanity in general as an F, maybe a D-minus.
Weak Sauce
Keep scrolling, no intelligent replies will be effective here.
Whatever rocks your libido!
Anon @ 04:49 AM
Doesn’t mean Disney can’t add offspring. I suspect they won’t enslave themselves fully to Lucas’ ideas.
She could be a Kenobi…Rey Kenobi?
Kind of makes sense.
Don’t kid yourself. You’ll watch the movie. You may not like it, but you’ll watch it. After all, you’ll eventually need something else to complain about.
AMEN.
“Most likely I won’t even go to the theater to watch episode 7 which will be a first for any Star Wars movie.”
But yet, you are here, endlessly posting on the boards. Makes perfect sense.
See you in line, bro.
Disney is going to have a huge year! Pixar to release 3 movies?? they haven’t ever done this before. hopefully they will all be decent and not like the Car’s spin off movies. Quality is what keeps fans coming.
Pixar is only doing two movies next year. They’ve done that before.
Boyega #2???
This has to be propaganda, because all I hear online are negative comments about this dude.
And I myself don’t like him. So this “survey” has to be bullshit.
Negative comments? You must be thinking about those keyboard warriors that can’t cope with the idea of not having a lead white male carry the films.
Other than that I can’t think of any reason why to have such negative criticism over someone you’ve only seen 5 seconds of.
“You must be thinking about those keyboard warriors that can’t cope with the idea of not having a lead white male carry the films.”
Yea, about 90% of the Star Wars fanbase. You got it.
And how does a stupid survey affect or benefit the film? Who gives a crap if Boyega’s voted #2, #1, or not even voted in at all?
The important thing will be the film itself, not stupid surveys, BS or otherwise.
Erm not all the movies there are in 2015 you said there is one every month not true it goes up to July then no more Disney movies in till after February
Trust Star wars to project a relatively unknown actress from 0.1 mph to lightspeed in the blink of an eye THATS the power of Star War’s second rate franchise my ass!!
The Age of Ultron. Will be nothing like the comic. In the Comic the key players are Wolverine and Susan Storm Who go back in time to kill Ant Man. In the comic, Ant Man creates Ultron, nor Tony Stark. Ultron kills the Hulk, the Thing (Ed Grimm) and others.
Why are you talking about Marvel on a Star Wars website?